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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by coliveira on Saturday October 03, 2020 @09:12PM (#24675915)
Bourne Shell is a clear influence on Perl and PHP. And by the way, Bourne Shell was a influenced by C.
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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by dTal on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:44AM (#24677888)
It's also marked "Unlikely to influence anything in the future, due to remarkably poor design", yet there's still a line drawn from it.... to Erlang?? but not Perl.

I can't extract any value at all from this chart.

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